tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45565414107728703422024-02-07T03:19:39.032-07:00America's Revolutionary Voices: Conversations From a New Nation American Revolutionaries and other important figures share their ideas, dreams, fears and aspirations with family and close friends. From these sentiments, in whispers or shouts among confidants, opponents or rivals during moments of triumph or despair came plans to fashion a young independent nation.
jamesraciti@http://www.blogger.com/profile/06749596263073009215noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4556541410772870342.post-13722582637893110472015-10-25T17:00:00.000-06:002017-01-22T08:53:04.985-07:00James J. Raciti Biography<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b> October 2016: </b>I will soon be making my last posting on the blog <i>America's Revolutionary Voices.</i> It has been an enjoyable journey for me and I hope my readers feel the same. Just over 4,000 page views have been reported. It is evident to me that the core of our readers has followed the development of this blog from the very beginning by the comments I have received. Thank you.<b> </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>August 2016:</b> I want to thank my readers for following <i>America's Revolutionary Voices </i>since its inception. You may be interested to know that this blog has had more than 3,000 page views by readers in fifteen countries including the USA, France, Germany, Italy, UK, Russia, Spain, Argentina, Brazil, etc.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 115%;"><b>March 2016:</b> Welcome to my new site, <i>America's Revolutionary Voices</i>. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 115%;"><span class="PXLWASD-E-xb"><span class="PXLWASD-mb-q">Here, leaders of the new <span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">nation</span> and other important figures share their ideas, dreams,
fears and aspirations with family and close friends. From these
sentiments, in whispers or shouts among confidants, opponents or rivals
during moments of triumph or despair came plans to fashion a young
independent nation.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 115%;"><span class="PXLWASD-E-xb"><span class="PXLWASD-mb-q">These include George Washington, Martha Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, <span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Abigail</span> Adams, John Quincy Adams, Alexander <span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Hamilton</span>, Ben Franklin, Stephen Girard, Thomas Paine, James <span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Madison</span>, James Monroe, John Hancock, Aaron Burr, Samuel Adams, Mercy Warren, Kitty Greene, Lucy Knox and many more. </span></span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">I
am a native of Philadelphia where I went to Girard College, Temple University and then continued my education
in Europe earning two Masters Degrees (English and French) at the University of
Grenoble in France and a PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of
Zaragoza, Spain.</span></div>
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remained in Europe as an educator and
administrator subsequently working for the University of Salamanca, the
University of Barcelona, the University of Maryland’s European Division.
Returning to the States, I became the Director of Education and
Training for US Space Command and oversaw the worldwide Space Command
Education Programs from Colorado Springs. </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">During my tenure at Space Command, I attended and graduated from
Harvard University's MLE ( Institute for Management and Leadership in
Education) 1993. U<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">pon my retirement in 1998, I was awarded the<i> Air Force Mer<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">itorious<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> Service Medal.<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"></span></span></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">Throughout my career, I have written in
a number of different genres.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To date,
I've written and had published four novels: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Au
Revoir à la France</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Giacomo</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Pulling No Ponchos:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An Irreverent History of Santa Fe </i>and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Legacy of War</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> My</span> non-fiction works include<i> Ask About Santa Fe</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Old Santa Fe, A Brief Review of History</i>,
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ask About Florida</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Carrabelle and Florida’s Forgotten Coast and Stephen Girard: America's Colonial Olympian.</i> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">I have three poetry collections, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Charles</i>,
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dabs of Myself</i>, and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Bird Chart Boy -</i> which contains poems about my childhood at Girard. I have written and produced two plays, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Invitation
to Dawn</i> (Hemingway's last hours) and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Song of Roland<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> </span>(</i>The<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>Black <span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Crucifixion in Modern Society</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">).</span> </i>I also have two theater scripts <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Tallahassee by
the Sea </i>and <i>Dialogs Beyond</i></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 115%;"> still </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">on the drawing board.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">In 2014, I created a blog: <i>Get to Know Stephen Girard</i>. It can be accessed at <a href="http://www.stephengirard.org./">www.stephengirard.org.</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">This present blog follows my research on Stephen Girard and is expanded to include<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> most of the</span> Founding Fathers. <span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">T</span>he history of thes<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">e conversations </span>is mostly factual, the relationships accurate, and the topics of the conversations are drawn from written documents; however they are not spoken as I have presented them. Where written documentation was not available, I have created the exchanges imaginatively as though I had heard them myself. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">Please note that no attributions are provided with this blog. When this blog becomes a published book, there will be a bibliography of cited works as well as a<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> section for extended notes.</span> </span><br />
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